Letter: No excuse for law easing rules of the road

State wrong to ease road rules

EDITOR: I had to check this out for myself; I could not believe this is now a law! In 2011 Assembly Bill 265, Section 4. 346.09 (3) (b), Wisconsin law now allows a vehicle operator to cross the center line in such a no-passing zone.

Wisconsin is a dairy state and as such farm equipment will be using the same roads as vehicles. We have milk, fuel, gas, logging, gravel and county trucks along with farm equipment on our roads. Then there are the drivers who are using the cell phones and texting, drinking coffee and eating while driving, smokers, those adjusting the radio and CD players, lipstickers, student drivers, Amish buggies, the suspended or no-license drivers, people going the speed limit, and most of all drunken drivers and drivers already convicted two or three times.

The law allows drivers "to overtake and pass, with care." I wonder why we even have any laws of the road? I get monthly emails from my state representative and I never was informed about this issue. Why didn't the public know about this? Gov. Scott Walker signed this bill last year. Call your elected officials and find how they voted on this!

We elected these officials to protect us. How could any of our elected officials approve this bill? Are they doing their job? Ask the many families who have lost loved ones to drivers on our roads! Do we really need more deaths on our roads?

Alice B. Younger,

Stratford

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Letter: No excuse for law easing rules of the road

EDITOR: I had to check this out for myself; I could not believe this is now a law! In 2011 Assembly Bill 265, Section 4. 346.09 (3) (b), Wisconsin law now allows a vehicle operator to cross the

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